+ The Fight Against Phishing: 44 Ways to Protect Yourself

“The offenders have at their disposal an arsenal of weaponry – seemingly innocuous links embedded in emails that redirect to fake sites, pop-up windows that encourage you to enter sensitive information, URL masks that conjure up real Web addresses, and keystroke loggers that are lurking around waiting to capture your user ids and passwords even as you type them. You don’t necessarily have to be tech-savvy to protect yourself from phishing attacks, it’s enough if you keep your wits about you, are a little aware that not all sites on the Internet are the genuine article, and follow one or a combination of the following 44 tips.

Source: Network Security Journal

+ Investigations Involving the Internet and Computer Networks (National Institute of Justice via DocuTicker)

+ McAfee Virtual Criminology Report 2007: Organized Crime and the Internet

+ White Paper: Identity Theft (via McAfee)

+ A Defense-in-Depth Approach to Phishing (Thesis via Naval Postgraduate School)

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